Adapting Translation for the Stage

ISBN-13: 9780367736095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 298 str.

Geraldine Brodie; Emma Cole

Opis

Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those working across boundaries, exploring common themes encountered when writing, staging, and researching translated works.

Spis treści

Foreword – Christopher Haydon

1. Introduction – Geraldine Brodie and Emma Cole







Section 1: The Role of Translation in Rewriting Naturalist Theatre









2. Critical Introduction: The Revolution of the Human Spirit - May-Brit Akerholt











3. Total Translation: Approaching an Adaptation of Strindberg’s The Dance of Death Parts One and Two – Tom Littler











4. Doctors Talking to Doctors in Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi (1912) - Judith Beniston











5. An Antidote to Ibsen? British Responses to Chekhov and the Legacy of Naturalism - Philip Ross Bullock











6. The Translation Trance: Naturalism and Strindberg’s Dance of Death [transcript of a talk given at the Theatre Translation Forum] - Howard Brenton







Section 2: Adapting Classical Drama at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century









7. Critical Introduction: Adapting the Classics: Pall-bearers, Mourners, and Resurrectionists - Jane Montgomery Griffiths











8. Hecuba, Queen of What? – Caroline Bird











9. Paralinguistic Translation in Contemporary Theatre: Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love – Emma Cole











10. Forces at Work: Euripides’ Medea at the National Theatre 2014 – Lucy Jackson











11. Translation and/in Performance: My Experiments – Mary-Kay Gamel







Section 3: Translocating Political Activism in Contemporary Theatre









12. Critical Introduction: The Critical and Cultural Faultlines of Translation/Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre - Jean Graham-Jones











13. Handling ‘Paulmann’s Dick’: Translating Audience and Character Recognition in Contemporary Theatre – William Gregory











14. Wilhelm Genazino’s Lieber Gott mach mich blind and the proportions of translation – Thomas Wilks











15. Domestication as a political act: The case of Gavin Richards’ translation of Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist – Marta Niccolai











16. Theatrical Translation/Theatrical Production: Ramón Griffero’s Pre-Texts for Performance - Adam Versényi







Section 4: Modernist Narratives of Translation in Performance









17. Critical Introduction: The Roaming Art - Tanya Ronder











18. Pinning down Piñera - Gráinne Byrne and Kate Eaton











19. Translating sicilianità in Pirandell’s dialect play Liolà - Enza De Francisci











20. Narratives of Translation in Performance: Collaborative Acts - David Johnston











21. How to Solve a Problem like Lorca: Anthony Weigh’s Yerma - Gareth Wood











22. Multiple Roles and Shifting Translations [transcript of Emily Mann in conversation with the editors] – Emily Mann







Afterword









23. Adapting – and Accessing – Translation for the Stage – Eva Espasa

Index

O autorze

Geraldine Brodie (University College London) lectures, researches and writes about theatre translation practices in contemporary London. Recent publications include a special issue of the Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance on Martin Crimp (2016) and her forthcoming book The Translator on Stage.

Emma Cole (Bristol University) lectures, researches, and writes about the reception of Greek and Roman literature in contemporary theatre. She has published on classical performance reception and the work of Katie Mitchell (2015) and Martin Crimp (2016), and has a forthcoming monograph titled Postdramatic Tragedies.